Random Rants
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To update a previous item, the President of the University of MD did an about-face and fired the coach one day after he was reinstated by the board of regents. There’s a good article on while this is a step in the right direction, there are many self-made challenges for the school to overcome.
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The line in the article that stood out to me was this one:
"Given that this is college sports, we know [former head coach Durkin] will get a job. There is no longer a bottom here, even when you think it can’t get worse."College football really has become a cesspit.
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^ College football is big business. I guarantee if Jerry Sandusky was released from prison he'd have another job coaching football.
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Agreed on college sports and football in particular.
This is all very poignant for me as the era of strong identity he refers to was exactly when I was there as an undergrad. We were getting noticed on the national level for basketball, and had a nascent football program. Academically many of our programs were nationally very well ranked, and there was much new construction all over campus. I think the temptation is often to take a growing success and try to expand wildly in every arena. An ill-conceived expansion has sunk many an empire, but companies often fail to remember this.
Abandoning your core values for the land grab will work in the short term but once you’ve erected the grand structure you look down and there’s no foundation underneath. If you’re not lucky often people have been hurt along the way as well. This is why the long term successes (people, programs, companies) are always aligned on their values. They have a culture not because they talk about it loudly but because they live it and won’t compromise it. This is why I patronize (and invest in) companies that are aligned from the top down.
It’s just sad to see my school go the way of so many other companies and programs, especially when there was such a buzz of promise while I was there.
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@Giles no no, not at all. Sorry the 'ouch' was the sound of my foot being firmly rammed into my mouth! I hope the team and family enjoyed the evening.
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I just bought a coffee in one of my 'when in London' coffee shops. The barrista handed me the contactless machine before I reached for my wallet. I said 'oh no, I'm cash thanks'. He response? 'Oh, cash, old school man' hahaha. The psychology of financial exchanges eh? Ha, we laughed.
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My son got food poisoning Friday evening and I suspect it was a bad batch of raspberries I picked up. So, He’s been dealing with projectile vomiting and diarrhea for the last 2 days and had to stay home from school. He’s much better now but I’m a little pissed that I bought tainted food. Seems like a regular occurrence these days to read about salmonella outbreaks, I just never thought it would happen to my son. [emoji35]
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Truth. Funny thing is, I’m now sick with whatever my son had [emoji23]. No vomiting and I haven’t shit myself….yet.
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It saddens me how some products seem to sell well, but are then just lost in the abyss…
I WANT TO SEE WELL WORN PICS OF THE IHM-22 21oz denim N-1!!! Lol
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There’s like 6k people on this forum and about a hundred of us who
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It saddens me how some products seem to sell well, but are then just lost in the abyss…
I WANT TO SEE WELL WORN PICS OF THE IHM-22 21oz denim N-1!!! Lol
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There’s like 6k people on this forum and about a hundred of us who
Talk regularly. Those other 5900 are a cagey private bunch.You've just furthered my sadness! Lol
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It actually really bothers me that most of the product threads are now dead a short time after release (with a few exceptions) and some never get going despite good sales. Didn't used to be like that.
I think one of the major reasons is the huge increase in product IH is putting out, so it's a minor, negative consequence of a major positive, but still. I'm as guilty of it as anyone…
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The WAYWT thread diverts a lot of attention to product-specific threads and embedded fit pics. I detest the notion of double- or cross-posting, so it's typically one or the other.
One forum enhancement that could help would be product tags that function similarly to user tags, with auto-completion. These would be searchable so that users could easily see all posts with a given product tag with a simple query.
Imagine being able to tag your WAYWT post with @IHSH-87, etc, and for those tags to either link to the product thread or to a search for all instances of a tag as described above.
Think it, be it.
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The WAYWT thread diverts a lot of attention to product-specific threads and embedded fit pics. I detest the notion of double- or cross-posting, so it's typically one or the other.
One forum enhancement that could help would be product tags that function similarly to user tags, with auto-completion. These would be searchable so that users could easily see all posts with a given product tag with a simple query.
Imagine being able to tag your WAYWT post with @IHSH-87, etc, and for those tags to either link to the product thread or to a search for all instances of a tag as described above.
You’re right in everything you say.
As to your tagging suggestion I brought this up with @Giles about a year ago and he put me in touch with his web people. We had a solid exchange of ideas about it. The issue is that the forum runs on a platform that is quite straightforward and the kind of tagging we’re talking about (Instagram/Twitter level) takes a god-like amount of processing and programming power.
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The WAYWT thread diverts a lot of attention to product-specific threads and embedded fit pics. I detest the notion of double- or cross-posting, so it's typically one or the other.
One forum enhancement that could help would be product tags that function similarly to user tags, with auto-completion. These would be searchable so that users could easily see all posts with a given product tag with a simple query.
Imagine being able to tag your WAYWT post with @IHSH-87, etc, and for those tags to either link to the product thread or to a search for all instances of a tag as described above.
Yes!
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Here's a hack though: actually use user accounts for the tags. You can search for posts by tag ("@username") so it would be easy find tagged posts. Clicking the tag would take you to the account page of the "user" and from there you could see all "their" posts, which could include the original posting of the product.
I understand the level of operational overhead may be unpalatable, but this would work.
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I occasionally double post in WAYWT for exactly @neph93 concern about original item threads being under used. It doesn't bother me too much.
Maybe I/we all should give more thought about the need for a WAYWT thread at all. Validation addiction is a hell of a thing.
